I am working in a very strict enviroment where I only have access to a remote computer via RDP and it is impossible for me to enable SSH or SFTP etc on the other computer. I CAN connect to the computer through FreeRDP however as far as I know this is only useful in order to enable you just launch a display. Basically my question is there an option that I can feed into FreeRDP so that I can execute a single command on the remote desktop without a need for a display. **Is there a way to Use/Hack FreeRDP to use it LIKE SSH** Thank you in advance.

I don't understand what can be the reason of an unsuccessful login with rdesktop. After I run the command: rdesktop -u "user" -p "pwd" ip-address it shows me the screen of my remote Windows PC with the message "user name or password incorrect" message. After I press the button to retry the login I can see the correct pc name already entered in the corresponding text field. I enter the password and it shows me the error message again. But the password is correct. The version of rdesktop is 1.8.3 When I connect with remmina there is no such a problem. If you cannot explain why it's so, could you please at least recommend an RDP client that works well from command line.

I am looking for a working method to sign PDFs using the certificate from a signature card. So what I need is either a program that signs PDFs in a way that is compatible to what AcroRead does on Microsoft, or a way to forward the signature card via rdesktop.

I am trying to setup rdp from my rpi 4 with Raspberry pi OS to my laptop running Arch Linux using Remmina. Currently I cannot rdp from my rpi into any Arch machines (there are two) using Remmina. However, using rdesktop as a client does work. rdesktop is an undesirable solution, as I wish to have access to the features of Remmina and potentially run Remmina straight from X in some kind of makeshift kiosk mode. This is the offending error on Arch VM/BM when running watch systemctl status xrdp during a connection attempt from the rpi to the Arch machines with Remmina: May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: keyboard_type keyboard_subtype May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: model [] variant [] layout [us] options [] May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [INFO ] TLS connection established from 10.0.0.94 port 43248: TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_pointer: client supports new(color) cursor May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [INFO ] xrdp_process_offscreen_bmpcache: support level 1 cache size 7864320 MB cache entries 2000 May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [INFO ] Loading keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000409.ini May 05 23:51:30 zion xrdp: [WARN ] local keymap file for 0x00000409 found and doesn't match built in keymap, using local keymap file May 05 23:51:31 zion xrdp: [ERROR] xrdp_iso_send: trans_write_copy_s failed May 05 23:51:31 zion xrdp: [ERROR] SSL_shutdown: Server closed TLS connection May 05 23:51:31 zion xrdp: [ERROR] Sending [ITU T.125] DisconnectProviderUltimatum failed ---------- I have 4 machines: - Windows 10 Lappy - Arch Linux in a VM - Arch Linux on "Bare Metal" - Raspberry pi OS on rpi "Bare Metal" Here are the success/failure scenarios that I have experienced thus far, which have been repeated and confirmed: |Result|Source|Session Protocol|Destination| |------|------|----------------|----| | PF | ALL | vnc over rdp | rpi| | PF | ALL | xorg over rdp | Arch VM/BM| | S | Win10 | xorg over rdp | rpi| | S | rpi | standard rdp | Win10| | S | Win10 | vnc over rdp | Arch VM/BM| | S | Arch VM/BM | standard rdp | Win10| | TF | rpi | n/a | Arch VM/BM| | S | Arch VM/BM | xorg over rdp | rpi| - S = success - TF = total failure = connection drops before session manager can illicit credentials - PF = partial failure = no window manager started and only backgound of session manager persists - ALL = all machines - VM/BM = Virtual Machine / Bare Metal Despite the xorgxrdp package being installed on Arch VM/BM I cannot start an Xorg session. The most important thing here is establishing an rdp session FROM my rpi to my Arch machines, as the rpi is running as an rdp portal of sorts. I have tried turning off xrdp-sesman to see if that at least results in establishing a connection. My thinking there was maybe it's only the session manager having problems, which assumed the connection is made separately. This configuration does not work, no connection appears possible. ---------- ### Arch Linux VM/BM system/app info (identical systems) ### xrdp version: xrdp -v xrdp 0.9.16 A Remote Desktop Protocol Server. Copyright (C) 2004-2020 Jay Sorg, Neutrino Labs, and all contributors. See https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp for more information. Configure options: --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sbindir=/usr/bin --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system --enable-jpeg --enable-tjpeg --enable-fuse --enable-opus --enable-rfxcodec --enable-mp3lame --enable-pixman --enable-painter --enable-vsock CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 Compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021 Freerdp versions: xfreerdp /version > This is FreeRDP version 2.3.2 (n/a) kernel version: uname -r > 5.10.27-1-lts Remmina version: remmina -V Load modules from /usr/lib/remmina/plugins Remmina plugin glibsecret (type=Secret) has been registered, but is not yet initialized/activated. The initialization order is 2000. Failed to load plugin: /usr/lib/remmina/plugins/remmina-plugin-vnc.so. Error: libvncclient.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Failed to load plugin: /usr/lib/remmina/plugins/remmina-plugin-spice.so. Error: libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The glibsecret secret plugin has been initialized and it will be your default secret plugin org.remmina.Remmina - 1.4.13 (git n/a) NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION PLUGIN AND LIBRARY VERSION EXEC Protocol Execute a command 1.0 NX Protocol NX - NX Technology 1.4.13 RDP Protocol RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol RDP plugin: 1.4.13 (Git n/a), Compiled with libfreerdp 2.3.2 (n/a), Running with libfreerdp 2.3.2 (rev n/a), H.264 Yes RDPF File RDP - RDP File Handler RDP plugin: 1.4.13 (Git n/a), Compiled with libfreerdp 2.3.2 (n/a), Running with libfreerdp 2.3.2 (rev n/a), H.264 Yes RDPS Preference RDP - Preferences RDP plugin: 1.4.13 (Git n/a), Compiled with libfreerdp 2.3.2 (n/a), Running with libfreerdp 2.3.2 (rev n/a), H.264 Yes ST Protocol Remmina simple terminal 1.0.0.0 XDMCP Protocol XDMCP - X Remote Session 1.4.13 glibsecret Secret Secured password storage in the GNOME keyring 1.4.13 Build configuration: HAVE_ARPA_INET_H=1 HAVE_ERRNO_H=1 HAVE_FCNTL_H=1 HAVE_NETDB_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_IN_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_TCP_H=1 HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H=1 HAVE_SYS_UN_H=1 HAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 HAVE_UNISTD_H=1 WITH_APPINDICATOR=ON WITH_AVAHI=ON WITH_GCRYPT=ON WITH_ICON_CACHE=ON WITH_IPP=OFF WITH_LIBRARY_VERSIONING=ON WITH_MANPAGES=ON WITH_NEWS=OFF WITH_SSE2=ON WITH_TRANSLATIONS=ON WITH_UPDATE_DESKTOP_DB=ON Build type: Release CFLAGS: -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fPIC -Wall -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wredundant-decls Compiler: GNU, 10.2.0 Target architecture: x64 ---------- ### Raspberry Pi OS system/app info ### xrdp version: xrdp -v xrdp 0.9.9 A Remote Desktop Protocol Server. Copyright (C) 2004-2018 Jay Sorg, Neutrino Labs, and all contributors. See https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp for more information. Configure options: --enable-ipv6 --enable-jpeg --enable-fuse --enable-rfxcodec --enable-opus --enable-painter --enable-vsock --build=arm-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libdir=${prefix}/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --with-socketdir=/var/run/xrdp/sockdir build_alias=arm-linux-gnueabihf CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/xrdp-q47Nhl/xrdp-0.9.9=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/xrdp-q47Nhl/xrdp-0.9.9/pkgconfig Compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019 Freerdp versions: xfreerdp /version > This is FreeRDP version 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian) kernel versions: uname -r > 5.10.17-v7l+ Remmina versions: Remmina -V: ** (org.remmina.Remmina:31546): CRITICAL **: 12:05:00.357: secret_service_load_collections_sync: assertion 'paths != NULL' failed [glibsecret] unable to get secret service: Unknown error. Plugin entry returned false: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/remmina/plugins/remmina-plugin-secret.so. StatusNotifier/Appindicator support: not supported by desktop. libappindicator will try to fallback to GtkStatusIcon/xembed WARNING: Remmina is running with a secret plugin, but it cannot connect to a secret service. Remmina - 1.3.3 (git n/a) NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION PLUGIN AND LIBRARY VERSION RDP Protocol RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol RDP Plugin: 1.3.3 (git n/a), Compiled with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian), Running with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (rev 2693389a+debian), H264: Yes RDPF File RDP - RDP File Handler RDP Plugin: 1.3.3 (git n/a), Compiled with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian), Running with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (rev 2693389a+debian), H264: Yes RDPS Preference RDP - Preferences RDP Plugin: 1.3.3 (git n/a), Compiled with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian), Running with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (rev 2693389a+debian), H264: Yes SFTP Protocol SFTP - Secure File Transfer 1.3.3 SSH Protocol SSH - Secure Shell 1.3.3 VNC Protocol VNC - VNC viewer 1.3.3 VNCI Protocol VNCI - VNC viewer listen mode 1.3.3 glibsecret Secret Secure passwords storing in the GNOME keyring 1.3.3 Build configuration: HAVE_ARPA_INET_H=1 HAVE_ERRNO_H=1 HAVE_FCNTL_H=1 HAVE_NETDB_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_IN_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_TCP_H=1 HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H=1 HAVE_SYS_UN_H=1 HAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 HAVE_UNISTD_H=1 WITH_APPINDICATOR=ON WITH_AVAHI=ON WITH_FREERDP=ON WITH_GCRYPT=ON WITH_GETTEXT=ON WITH_LIBRARY_VERSIONING=ON WITH_LIBSECRET=ON WITH_LIBSSH=ON WITH_LIBVNCSERVER=ON WITH_MANPAGES=ON WITH_NEON=ON WITH_SPICE=ON WITH_SSE2=OFF WITH_TELEPATHY=ON WITH_TRANSLATIONS=ON WITH_VTE=ON Build type: None CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/remmina-iuOrHL/remmina-1.3.3+dfsg=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -g Compiler: GNU, 8.2.0 Target architecture: ARM

I have a Windows 8.1 remote PC, to which I am connecting using RDP from Windows 7 and Linux clients. I noticed that the performance e.g. when scrolling is much better on Windows than on any Linux distribution. I am using rdesktop, Remmina, GNOME-RDP, everywhere the screen refresh is slow and choppy, like VNC. But RDP [does not work like VNC](https://superuser.com/a/32514/140956) , or does it? Why is it so and what is the fastest RDP client for Linux? Maybe [Remote Desktop Connection Client](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=3108) under Wine?

By default, rdesktop grabs keyboard, so that key combinations such as Alt+Tab or Alt+F4 act inside the rdesktop window. This can be overridden with the -K option rdesktop -K myserver.mydomain.com Is there any way to chage this during an existing session? I always connect using the -K option, but sometimes I would like to switch so that rdesktop grabs my keyboard.

rdesktop and xfreerdp are both linux clients for RDP. However from their respective websites it is not clear what advantages/drawbacks of using one over other are there. I found one post , which indicated that xfreerdp has more features than rdesktop. * But what are these extra features? * How is the performance (or responsiveness) and clipboard support in both of them? I am looking forward to use a RDP client (on Linux Mint 17) to connect to few Windows computers (Win 7 and 8) and linux servers running xrdp.

Linux Mint 16 (Ubuntu-based) 32-bit running on a netbook. Installed Wine and Skype, and all updates. Went to install rdesktop (typed rdesktop in the gnome menu search, chose 'install rdesktop'), and I get a screen similar to , except that under the heading "NOT AUTHENTICATED," when I click the plus, there's just one blank line, no actual package names. The summary says 10 will be held back, 1 will be installed. I assume the 1 is rdesktop, so what's this blank line and warning all about? Will I fall victim to some MitM attack if I click "apply"?

I am using i3 desktop manager bound to my Win (or meta) key. Everything works great. Sometimes, I like to rdesktop into my windows machines. Now, as long as the application window is focuses or fullscreen, my windows machines gets the Win keys. If I want send commands to i3, I'll have to exit full screen and focus on a different application. The transition is slightly awkward. If I want to override the behavior I can invoke rdesktop -k. Now i3 listens to my windows keys. But, now windows can't hear my windows key. Now are windows shortcuts are disabled. Bummer. Is there a way to get selectively send calls to windows/i3? Binding to alt doesn't solve the problem.

I have a laptop which I want to use only remotely via rdp (xvnc server). I have setup rdp successfully. As I only use the laptop remotely, I want to disable it's display. To do that, I have already disabled lightdm. However, now at boot it shows: Antergos Linux 4.14.15-1-ARCH (tty1) simon login: I want to disable this display. However, I have no idea how to. I've tried: xset dpms force off but that only gives an error that the display cannot be found. Is x server even still running? If so, how do I disable it and blank the screen (and disable the laptop backlight)?

I would like to install **rdesktop** on CentOS 7. If I run sudo yum -y install rdesktop, the system says: No package rdesktop available. What should I do?

Unlike rdesktop, when I press ALT + F4 in remmina, it doesn't react in the Windows system, but instead closes the remmina window. Any thoughts?

I want to know more about how Remote Desktop Protocol works on Linux system. Does RDP client on Linux (rdesktop, FreeRDP, etc) using same API as Windows remote desktop?

I want to open rdesktop xrdp window by just clicking on button from [tag:php] website in [tag:linux] machine. Here is the php code : shell_exec('rdesktop localhost'); This will not display any error.

I have a Debian machine with xrdp-sesman setup following way Xvnc 127.0.0.1:5910 xrdp-sesman 127.0.0.1:3350 xrdp 0.0.0.0:3389 I am connecting to this machine with rdesktop from another Debian machine. Everything works great, except clipboard (i.e. using Ctrl+c Ctrl+v to copy and paste). When I connect from my Debian machine to a windows machine using the same rdesktop client, the clipboard works OK. I suspect that the reason why clipboard does not work when connecting to sesman is that it is using rdp over vnc (or something like that). I don't understand how sesman works, I have just reused config I have found somewhere. This is my /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini: [globals] bitmap_cache=yes bitmap_compression=yes port=3389 crypt_level=low channel_code=1 [xrdp1] name=sesman-Xvnc lib=libvnc.so username=ask password=ask ip=127.0.0.1 port=-1 **How can I make clipboard work when connecting to xrdp-sesman with rdesktop client?**

I have noticed that when I leave my RDP session to Windows server open for a night, then in the morning session has hanged. For example I can't even type anything into password box: According to ps the status of rdesktop process is following: $ ps -o pid,ppid,state,time,command -fp 26638 PID PPID S TIME COMMAND 26638 26637 S 00:00:01 rdesktop -E -g 1920x1100 10.20.20.6 -a 32 -r clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -r disk:windows /home/martin/windows -z -K $ However, under normal conditions, it is pretty much the same: $ ps -o pid,ppid,state,time,command -fp 30179 PID PPID S TIME COMMAND 30179 30178 S 00:00:02 rdesktop -E -g 1920x1100 10.20.20.6 -a 32 -r clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -r disk:windows /home/martin/windows -z -K $ At first I thought that maybe my iptables/netfilter session times out, but this does not seem to be the reason because I inserted a rule which allows all the traffic from RDP server(10.10.10.1): Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 10.20.20.6 anywhere What might cause this timeout? Is it possible that this timeout comes from RDP server side?

I installed rdesktop via pacman (package manager) After that I tried runned rdesktop command for connect to remote windows' desktop and got that error rdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libpcsclite.so.1: file too short I tried install libpcsclite package via pacman and yaourt but they didn't find the package. The question is how to fix that issue? Thanks, Michael.

I have a setup that implies calling **rdesktop** on a remote machine which is accessed through ssh: user@192.168.1.110:~$ ssh user@192.168.1.120 -X and then running **rdesktop** as: user@192.168.1.120:~$ rdesktop 192.168.2.130 -u username -p password -r disk:local="./TestRDP" -s "cmd.exe /K net use C: \\\\tsclient\local & C:\\test.bat & logoff" On the machine that **rdesktop** is being run on there exists a directory **TestRDP** in which **rdesktop** is called which contains a file **test.bat** that creates another file for testing purposes: **test.bat**: @ECHO OFF echo "Test test test" > test_output_file.txt Now, shouldn't file **test_output_file.txt** be created on the machine on which **rdesktop** has been called in directory **TestRDP**? The linux machines are both running debian and the remote desktop machine Windows 7.

I believe rdesktop 1.7.1 is sending Linux timezones (For example "EST") to the Windows client I regularly connect to _(I am yet to find a way of seeing what Windows receives in the way of RDP settings in general, or just the timezone setting; Nor do I know how to monitor what rdesktop is sending to the Windows client. If anyone can increase my knowledge in either of these areas, please provide info/point me at something to read)_. This seems to be causing an issue with Windows, as it doesn't match any of the timezones in the registry @ HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones (See below error _"Your current time zone is not recognized. Please select a valid time zone using the link below"_).  I don't have zic on my live distro (Parted Magic) and so was wondering if there is any other way of changing the time zone to display "Eastern Daylight Time" either system wide, or just what rdesktop sends?

I'm using Awesome-WM and would like to setup a keyboard-toggle and/or window match rule that changes the way inputs are processed for that window. Basically I would like the option to mark a Window as "view only" so that no keyboard or mouse input is passed through to the program. My primary use case involves rdesktop which sadly doesn't have a way to connect to a remove machine in view-only mode and also is somewhat too greedy about detecting keyboard input, but I've also run into wanting this for other programs that I would like to monitor without accidentally passing them mouse activity. I've tried setting up a rule to disable the _focusable_ property, but this doesn't seem to have any effect: { rule_any = { class = { "rdesktop" } }, properties = { focus = false, focusable = false, floating = true, sticky = true, ontop = true, opacity = 0.5 } } All the other properties set here behave as expected, but the focus options do not disable the window from receiving focus and subsequent input events. Is there a way to configure this? As a bonus it would be nice to be able to setup a floating window as on-top but pass all input through to the window behind it. Is that a possibility?